Dictionary Activities for the ESL Classroom A Presentation for TESL ...

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Dictionary Activities for the ESL Classroom A Presentation for TESL Canada Presented by Jeff Gulley October 13, 2012

Permit the Metaphor

• What is this? • What can it do?

Agenda

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Why use a dictionary? Types of dictionaries What is a learner’s dictionary? Dictionary activities Selecting a dictionary

1. Why use a dictionary?

How are you using dictionaries? – Every lesson? – Structured, or random?

What do you do if…

• A student asks you the meaning of a word in class?

• A student asks you for a new word? • Your students are making common language mistakes? – e.g., “Explain me this lesson” – e.g., “He said me to meet him later”

Chinese Proverb

“Give a man a fish, and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish….”

Chinese Proverb

2. Types of dictionaries

Standard Dictionaries

Bilingual Dictionaries

Learner’s Dictionaries

Elementary

Intermediate

Advanced

Usage Dictionaries

Idioms

Phrasal Verbs

Collocations

Content Area Dictionaries

Picture Dictionaries

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Content Area Picture Dictionaries

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Pictionary

Learner’s Dictionaries

Elementary

Intermediate

Advanced

3. What is a learner’s dictionary?

The Oxford English Corpus

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Collection of texts (written or spoken) in electronic form Traceable language usage Provides evidence of real-life usage (correct and incorrect) Precise and meaningful dictionary entries: – Most common uses – Incorrect uses – New uses – New words – Oxford 3000 word list

The Oxford English Corpus Common errors tracked

The Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries Solutions presented

From the Oxford Essential Dictionary

What is a Learner’s Dictionary?

• Specifically for ESL and English learners – Easy to identify headwords Oxford 3000 keyword

What is a Learner’s Dictionary?

• Specifically for ESL and English learners – Monolingual, accessible, simple, Oxford 3000

What is a Learner’s Dictionary?

• Specifically for ESL and English learners – Pronunciation aids

What is a Learner’s Dictionary?

• Specifically for ESL and English learners – Grammar aids Comparitive and superlative forms

What is a Learner’s Dictionary?

• Specifically for ESL and English learners – Visual aids

What is a Learner’s Dictionary?

• Specifically for ESL and English learners – Vocabulary builders

What is a Learner’s Dictionary?

• Specifically for ESL and English learners – Collocation boxes

What is a Learner’s Dictionary?

• Specifically for ESL and English learners – Writing and composition guides

Lucky Dip

What is “sky”?

Compare

From the Concise Oxford English Dictionary

Compare

From the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

A Little Myth About Dictionaries

• Dictionaries are a great reference tool, but I don’t have much use for them in class – Core resource – Every program, institution has them for a reason – Great framing tool

4. Dictionary activities

Refresh Your Students

You can take a horse to water…

Dictionary Activities Use these to get started…

Dictionary Activities Skimming and Scanning

Dictionary Activities Food Fun

gis (Scotland) • Hag_____ • Sou_____ vlaki (Greece) • Las______ agne (Italy) lla • Pae______ (Spain) tine • Pou______ (Canada) us (Middle East) • Humm____

Dictionary Activities Go or Play?

Go swimming

jogging

Play sailing

volleyball hockey bowling football

dancing rugby

Dictionary Activities Verb Chart

run had choose caught dealt held

hide

Dictionary Activities Verb Chart

run have

choose catch deal hold hide

ran had chose caught dealt

held hid

run had chosen caught dealt held hidden

Dictionary Activities Use these to get started

More Activities Resource Books for Teachers: Dictionaries • • • •

Dictionary Ice-Breakers – page 70 Alphabet Game – page 27 Collapsing a Page – page 88 Find the Noun, Find the Adjective – page 40

5. Selecting a dictionary

Selecting a Dictionary

Elementary

Intermediate

Advanced

Selecting a Dictionary

New edition (May 2012)

Oxford ESL Dictionary With Canadian Content Only ESL Dictionary for Canadian market: • “CanE” • Canadian terms • Section on Canadian English • Colour illustrations • Grammar, collocations, synonyms/antonyms, thesaurus • Oxford 3000 and AWL • Content area words • Writing tutor

Oxford ESL Dictionary With Canadian Content Only ESL Dictionary for Canadian market: • Canadian spellings clearly marked “CanE”

Oxford ESL Dictionary With Canadian Content Only ESL Dictionary for Canadian market: • Canadian terms – “loonie” – “washroom” – “constable” – “toque” – “First Nations” – Etc.

Oxford ESL Dictionary With Canadian Content Only ESL Dictionary for Canadian market: • Canadian English – (Written by Katherine Barber)

Oxford ESL Dictionary With Canadian Content Only ESL Dictionary for Canadian market: • Colour illustrations

Oxford ESL Dictionary With Canadian Content Only ESL Dictionary for Canadian market: • Grammar • Collocations • Synonyms/Antonyms • Thesaurus • Idioms • Etc.

Oxford ESL Dictionary With Canadian Content Only ESL Dictionary for Canadian market: • Oxford 3000

Oxford ESL Dictionary With Canadian Content Only ESL Dictionary for Canadian market: • Academic Word List (AWL)

Oxford ESL Dictionary With Canadian Content Only ESL Dictionary for Canadian market: • Content area vocabulary

Oxford ESL Dictionary With Canadian Content Only ESL Dictionary for Canadian market: • Writing tutor

Oxford ESL Dictionary With Canadian Content Only ESL Dictionary for Canadian market: • iWriter (on CD-Rom) • Word lists (on CD-Rom) • Oxford Genie (on CD-Rom) • Pronunciation (on CD-Rom)

Final Thoughts on Dictionaries

• Readily available • Inexpensive • Flexible Also: • Under-used

Dr. Samuel Johnson

Thank you Any questions?